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Page Two THE TAR HEEL SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1945 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL ROBERT MORRISON BILL HIGHT JAMES SANFORD HOWARD MERRY IRWIN SMALLWOOD JACK LACKEY BANKS MEBANE BUDDY GLENN HARRISON TENNEY STAFF THIS ISSUE NEWS STAFF: Jessie Gregory, Bill Kornegray, Sam Summerlin, Jo Pugh, Gene Wfflrins, Thelma Cohen. Donald French, Mel Kopelman, Bette Anne Melcher, Jeepy Payne, Bettie Tillitt, Tom Corpening, Bill Foess, Harding Menzies, Fred Galton, Eowena Willis, Fred Chamberlain, Frederick Smetana, Norma Green, Tom Wicker, Eleanor Craig, Roland Gidux. , SPORTS STAFF: Frank Miller, Dick Seaver. CIRCULATION STAFF: John Lampe Phones: Editor, F-3141; Managing Editor and Associate Editor, F-3146; Sports Editor, 9886 ; Business and Circulation Managers, 8641. Published Tuesday and Saturday except during vacations and examinations. Staff meets every Sunday and Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. Any student desiring staff positions should attend a staff meeting. Deadlines Sunday and Thursday. Editorials are written or approved by the Editor and reflect the official, opinion of the Tar Heel. Columns and letters may be submitted by anyone ; the Editor reserves the right to edit this copy, but it does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Tar Heel. Editorial, business, and circulation offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Presses in the Orange Printshop on Rosemary Street. Entered as second class matter at the post effice at Chapel HiB, N. C tinder the act ol March 3. 18T9. IT trflne SITIUEDEfclir EDIT... 'COmmUNlMl Al LAKULlliA onULR-o MEMBER OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES - Ordinarily it has not been the policy of the Tar Heel to bother the student body with such magnanimous ukases as come down from Dave Clark's Textile Bulletin, but occasionally it is well to look upon the writings of our less apt members of the Fourth Estate and chuckle awhile with their cavortings. If the circulation of the Textile Bulletin had not been frozen by the discriminating readers of the state, a few more stray copies could be honored to drift into the campus of the University of North Carolina. v - Because the Tar Heel has not been able to contract a good svndiVated comic striD. we thought the students might find some diversion in browsing over the renowned but little-read edito rials of Dave Clark, who is such a friend of the University of North Carolina that not long ago he consented to accept a seat on the Board of Trustees. (Although great things were expected of this pompous entry into the inner circle of our great institu tion, we can still see clouds of cigar smoke pouring forth from the windows of South Building. Also the northeast corner of the first floor of venerable old structure is still a haven for the ordinary student and a spring of justice for the common man.) . After predicting in previous editorials the gory effects of a CIO training institute at Chapel Hill in the State Legislature, Clark's most recent ramblings on the subject center around Dr. Graham's activities in actually scheduling the CIO meeting. We were particularly interested in learning straight from Clark's printed page the fact that "the University of North Carolina was established and is supported for the purporse of educating the youth of North Carolina, but in order to f urnish an excuse for helping the CIO, Mr. Grumman and President Graham go far afield and claim that it is their duty to have a part in the affairs of all the people of the state." Clark goes oh to say, "It is the same excuse which President Graham invented when the university encouraged communists and socialists prior to the war and became a hotbed of un American activities." We admit that we've seen a few copies of the Communist Manifesto in Graham Memorial, and we understand that the Carolina Mag at one time printed a cover in red ink, but we have never presented Joe Stalin in a campus forum and we have presented such figures as Dave Clark and Franklin Roose velt. (The story is told that one of the books which Clark damned as "communistic" in the University library was later discovered North Carolina and to direct their affairs. In the most recent editorial, entitled "Dr. Graham Endorses the CIO," Clark makes some more startling revelations: "It may be proper for a state university to hold its doors open to all constructive organizations that are in accord with the principles and ideals of American constitutional democracy, but not until recent years, when it became necessary to find an , excuse, which loyal alumni and friends could use, did the uni versity claim that it had an obligation to advise the people of North Carolina and to direct their affairs." . "That idea or statement was invented solely as a protection to socialistic and communistic professors and instructors who were giving expression to their subversive doctrines and teach ing them to students entrusted to their care." Students, we pause here to ask if you've ever been entrusted to the care of a socialistic or communistic professor? Clark goes on: ' "As president of the university and an official of the Federal Government, Dr. Graham is under oath to protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States. Under such responsibility, as we see it, Dr. Graham is obligated to close the doors of the state university to every organization whose activities and objectives have been shown to be antagonistic to the principles and ideals of American constitutional industrial freedom.". We think the old boy has something here. We would like to see him abide by it. ' "A state university, supported by the taxes of all the peo ple, including farming and industrial elements, is under most Editor Associate Editor Managing Editor Associate Managing Editor Sports Editor j News Editor Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Business and Circulation Manager serious obligations to protect and preserve American consti tutional freedom, and defend constitutional freedom in religion in business, everywhere against every organization that seeks to overthrow or restrain this freedom, but no teacher has a right to try to sell subversive or disloyal doctrines to students. "It is difficult to overestimate the harm the head of a state university jnay do in giving recognition to organizations that are really hostile to American constitutional ideals and prin ciples. The rank and file of the people,, unfortunately, know but little of the foundation principles of government. Hence they let others think for them in this field. Naturally, they assume that the president of the state university is posted on the foun dation principles of our government and is expected to be loyal to such principles. Consequently when he endorses and gives his enthusiastic support to any organization, the people are in clined to accept his judgment as sound and safe on account of the prestige of his position. Many alumni feel they must endorse any movement which he approves. "Radicals understand this, and they may be counted on to use the prestige -of a state university endorsement for all it is worth to conceal their subversive objectives from the uninformed public. "A book written recently by a high official of the CIO urges its members to take advantage of every opportunity to make a tie-up with institutions in the educational field or, in other words, to stage a training school at such places as the University of North Carolina if an invitation is extended. "In order to understand the radical, parasitic, subversive na ture of the CIO movement, it is necessary to understand the foundation of American constitutional industrial freedom." It was our understanding that a law made under the Constitu tion of the United States guarantees to workers the right to form unions and bargain collectively. We wonder why these - - communistic radicals can violate the Constitution and still be sanctioned by laws made by the majority of the American people punder the Constitution. We also thought that there was a bo(3y set up by the Constitution to interpret the Constitution. We did not know that this ibody.was called the Textile Bulletin. The editorial continues with a maze of facts and figures about American labor which don't quite correspond with facts and figures which we observe in the current press, and then winds up with this superb deduction : "Who can doubt but that the definite purpose of the CIO is - tcTflestroy American constitutional industrial freedom and es tablish in its place a labor dictatorship over American in dustry?" (We can doubt it.) "If Dr. Graham is in sympathy with this radical, subversive revolution against constitutional industrial freedom; his enthu siastic endorsement of the CIO is easily explained." We can't quite determine what is meant by "constitutional industrial freedom" which denies the right for labor to organize and a university to offer instruction to any group of citizens, but we'll leave the interpretation to the Supreme Court and Dave Clark. READING THE EXCHANGES By Frederick THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE The main ' difference between British and American wording in signs comes in such as these, which endeavor to keep traffic moving: The British sign says, "If you must stop, please get off the road." The American, "Keep moving or get off the road." Indiana Daily Student. . ODD ACCIDENTS ' A stone step by the door. (It better not take too many steps shoe rationing, you know.) I saw a mill race up the road. (Or maybe it was just Mr. Wat son's physical education . class doing cross country.) A morning break the gloom. (And I mentally cursed my 8 o'clock.) I saw a night fall on the lawn. (You have to watch for those ba nana peels.) k A clock run in the room. It was my alarm clock shouting, "get up you lazybones, you had three whole hours of sleep last night." Oh the woes of a student!) I saw a peanut stand up high. (Mr. Planter Peanut of the elite garb.) A "sardine box in town. (And, boy, did he give that shark a lick mg.) Student. LIFE WITH FATHER Then there is the absent-minded druggist who put surgical dressing on the sandwiches. The world is thousands of years old, but one simple problem that hasn't yet been solved is blondes. A horse fly in the store. (He soon flew out in the form of steaks and hamburger.) , An absent-minded professor stopped a student Monday and asked: "Son, could you tell me whether I am going north or south?" "North," the student replied. "Well, I must have had my lunch then, thank you." Red and Black. Scene in Co-Op : Everyone is play ing bridge, talking, and sipping cokes. Suddenly someone jumps up, and runs to the counter. The sus pense is ended. The cigarettes have come in. Red and Black. Smetana Girl keeps sneezing in class. It must be a hangover from the Sat- urday night hayride. Red and Black. . The following is the first para graph of an editorial in the Univer sity of Maryland "Diamondback." "Up at the University of Mary land there is an awful lot of trouble. Up at the University of Maryland there are over eight hun dred coeds. All are lovely; all are desirable; all are desiring. Up at the Univer sity of Maryland there are a few dozen able-bodied men. Up at the University of Maryland there is an awful lot of trouble." All we can say is that we wish that was the only kind of trouble we had here at Tech. (Some guys get all the breaks.) Joe Sanders, The Technique. Some people have the strangest opinion about Tech. The latest, of these came to us via the Dartmouth Log which had this to say: "Geor gia Tech is a college where rough and tough engineers are prepared for the trials and tribulations of the cruel world." However, their opinion took quite a jolting recently when they" read in the "Technique" the following lines, "While no one is looking, Dykes is kissing the lip-prints of the letter from home." They haven't felt the same about Tech ever since. Joe Sanders, The Technique. The Tulane HULLABALOO has initiated a new feature on contem porary clippings, but it. contains notes on the more serious side of college life than that which we try to portray. Their first column con tained a clipping on the new Rocket Society which was formed here at Tech. Well, at any rate, somebody reads the Technique. Joe Sanders, The Technique. "What a splendid fit," said the tailor as he carried the epileptic out of his shop. New Mexico Lobo. It doesn't take much to satisfy self -satisfied' people. Indiana Daily Student. Cogs of fche Wheel By Allan Pannill Through the mud of life, a con glomeration of the past, the inevit able, and the fumblings of man, the wheel rolls oft. To an innocent bystander it seems that: The end of the war should not only bring the boys back to Caro lina, but should also bring many oft talked of improvements and renovations to the campus, its buildings, and the University's methods. Mr. Administration knows what I mean. The many damages incurred, in Chapel Hill on THE night of the Japs' surrender cannot be blamed entirely on the Marine V-12 as some believe! Even coeds were respons ible for some of it!! At least one Dukeman has found reason to stay away from the Hill, and NOT as a result of the usual feud. Around 11 p. m. last Satur day night he was attacked by a ne gro in the vicinity of the ATO house. The fight he didn't mind, but the quart, of Scotch broken in the scuffle drove him to tears and anti-Chapel Hillism! Dukeman or no Dukeman, I still feel sorry for the guy! The Sigma Chi house has had a face-lifting. 'Congrats, fellas, it looks fine! That dull dome of South Build ing is still insulting the local pigeons. No wonder the sun seldom shines-around here; why should it? Pretty soon SOMEBODY should figure out what the campus service men are going to do now. The "Y" has been resounding with the anx ious computation of points, and the woeful wails of those who can't find out the score! The loudest applause in Legis lature its last meeting, came from some contradictory people. The reason for the clapping was the an nouncement that there would be no more meetings this term. Those hearty approvers were the very ones who were so anxious that the Legislature continue its meetings through the summer, due to urgent business that was BOUND to come up Coffee and doughnuts bring ori such odd chatter: This week it was all the same, dear readers., "I just can't believe Our Comic Campus By j. s. The following is an article writ ten by a member of the Carolina NROTC unit, and submitted for publication for the express purpose of airing a pet peeve of long stand . ing. The following is not meant to start an argument with anyone, and it does not warrant an answer from anyone. It is merely a satire to be grinned at . . . and consid ered. On this campus we are plagued with a little clique of "B.M.O.C.'s," which, as most every humble, COMMON Carolina student knows, stands for the designation "Big Man on the Campus" or some other equally distasteful combination of words. To see one or more members of this delightful little group cavort and perform for the public eye with their affectations and their ostentatious self-importance, one has only to use his eyes and his other senses of direction; the afore said self-ordained intellects with their carefully prepared airs of in domitable superiority are as dis tinctive as so many purple legs on a green goat. From every quarter, obviously mostly rural in nature, these strange characters have stormed the Carolina campus and, at the first opportunity, have lit tered the campus , with their touched-up faces couched in a sea of boasts about their "honesty, in tegrity, and supreme devotion to duty" in one of the "terrifically im portant" campus elections with which we are plagued ever so often. Look what we are' called upon to elect! Now the tendency on the campus is to treat these loquacious, ver bose, but oh so dainty characters, who give us solemn assurance that they have their hands firmly on the public's pulse, with an assumed air of seriousness, combined of course by all the level-headed victims, with a sizeable hunk of salt. (The neck quite appropriately seems to be the place from which the public's pulse is carefully measured and regu lated). Rather, if" seems to me that the attitude of the public should be one of extreme, prolonged amuse ment; we might as well get a smile out of the antics of our fine, up standing lowbrows since we are not that the war is over, but I'm still going to be first in line when they start releasing things!" Midnight musings: IH bet the Buildings Department will wait until someone breaks his neck before they'll fix that fourth step behind their shops! A single rail doesn't seem to present suffi cient hazard; now you have to watch out for a half of a step!! In accordance with a promise made in this column last issue, this will constitute an issue's silence on "that guy." It seems strange that there was such a handful of students at Me morial Hall after the surrender news was announced. Gala celebra tion, yes, but what a gift of God! I wonder what the occupants of B.V.P. did after alf their "ticker tape" was strewn up and down Franklin street. Quite a loss, gentlemen! That fellow Raugh, of the Pre Flight School, is most obliging! . After two requests from this col umn, both were quickly and fully granted. Many thanks, Commander, and the weekly orchids are yours! The boys that run around half the night delivering Tar Heels to our doors don't get much credit f.or a tough job! Consider this the thanks of the campus, fellas. Without a doubt: The news that Fred Flagler had to leave school under a doctor's orders was hard to take. Hurry back, fella, and next time let Caro-( lina work for you awhile! I sure hope and pray that if any one finds my Grail key, they will either turn it in to the Information desk at the Y, or notify me at the Phi Delta Theta house! (Whatta way to get in a free add!!) It's tough luck that Dougald McMillan has to go into the Army NOW, but since he will be on cam pus until Sunday afternoon, maybe we can all get a chance to tell him "so-long." This will be the last writing of the Wheel until next term, 50 good luck on the exams, and have a big FOUR DAYS!! The wheel will roll, and its track will write a story in the volume called Time. O'Neal getting anything else of benefit. Added to their extra-curricular gy rations, we are even bothered with them in classes occasionally; but for some reason or other their in tellects seem to vary inversely with their loudly proclaimed "hon esty, integrity, ability, etc," parti cularly their ability. To help our more docile and be lieving suckers to get a glimpse of the light behind many a pair of dark glasses and manicured eye brows, we have only to conjure up (mind you, I said conjure!) a few apparitions and describe them. This gives the desired effect beautifully. Into our little seance strolls a distinctive (looking) young man with heavy eyebrows and . a big shock of brown hair which has not suffered the mortification of being cut for a few months. On his di vine face we catch look, set off by the glint of his eyes, of a hapless young neurotic, trying to appear to be wrestling with all of the weighty problems of the world at once. His baggy, brown clothes have not suf fered the humiliation of being pressed since his mother pressed them on his last vacation at Glenn ville. But the created effect is there to impress the lowly "com moner" to be certain to revere this cross between Wendell Willkie and B. 0. Plenty. In reality he is quite harmless, so long as his power is confined to that allowed a second helper to a paper-hanger -but re member other famous paper-hangers before you, become too lenient! As night follows day, one vision is followed by another of even darker aspect. Out of the shades steps no, it couldn't be! No, it isn't. I thqught for a moment it was- Neville Chamberlain, but this fellow is far too young. (Neville Chamberlain was young once!) With an angelic look (powdered too, I, fear) and a sloppy gait, our hero bears down on us. His little bow tie bobbles on his Adam's ap ple,, and his Chamberlain umbrella almost drags the ground in com pany with the tails of his swallow tail coat, giving the desired "diplo matic" effect. He is much too busy to visit with us, and we shall not See COMIC, page 4.